Barbara Weiden Boyd

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Barbara Weiden Boyd, Henry Winkley Professor of Latin and Greek, holds a B.A. from Manhattanville College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan. In addition to offerings in Greek and Latin languages and literatures, Boyd teaches courses on classical mythology, Rome in the age of Augustus, and the Ovidian tradition.

Her scholarly specialization is Latin poetry, especially the works of Virgil and Ovid. She has published widely on a variety of Roman writers, including Virgil, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, and Sallust. Current projects include a commentary on Ovid's Remedia amoris and a book on texts and contexts in Augustan Rome. She has just completed an edited collection of essays, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (forthcoming from the Modern Language Association).

Boyd has travelled and studied extensively in Italy, where she lived while teaching classical studies for two years at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Philological Association, and serves on the executive committee of the Discussion Group on Classics and Modern Literature in the Modern Language Association.

“Comprehending the Microcosm, Exploring the Macrocosm: An Introduction to the 2009 APA/ACL Panel on Transformations of Ovidian Myth,” The Classical Outlook 86.4 (2009) 121-22.

“Ovid in Modern Translation,” in Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox, eds., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (Modern Language Association Publications, 2010) 34-38.

“Surveying Pedagogy and Practice: A Report on the MLA Survey” (co-authored with Cora Fox), in Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox, eds., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (Modern Language Association Publications, 2010) 39-46.

“Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition: Introduction” (co-authored with Cora Fox), in Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox, eds., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (Modern Language Association Publications, 2010) 49-56.

“Island-Hopping: Reading Ovid’s Ariadne and Her Texts,” in Barbara Weiden Boyd and Cora Fox, eds., Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition (Modern Language Association Publications, 2010) 225-33.